FINAL CONFERENCE OF EURESCL project "Slave Trade, Slavery Abolitions and their Legacies in European Histories and Identities" (7th Framework Programme of the European Commission)

Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, 24-26 January 2012, Hull

Call for Papers : PhD Travel Bursaries to Support Conference Participation
Enslavement, Identity and Cross-Cultural Exchange

The EURESCL project and the Wilberforce Institute are offering a number of bursaries for advanced doctoral students to attend this conference and to present their work. Bursaries will cover rail travel within Britain, along with room and board during the conference.

This conference concludes a four-year long EU-funded research project, which explores how historical patterns of enslavement have reshaped relationships between peoples in Africa, Europe and the Americas. In an effort to include new voices in this larger conversation, we are now seeking paper proposals from doctoral candidates that speak to one or more of the following themes :

 Enslavement as a process of cross-cultural exchange
 Slavery, anti-slavery, and the boundaries of ’Self’ and ’Other’
 Legal theories and practical realities
 Moving beyond the Atlantic World
 The history and mythology of ’benign slavery’
 Anti-slavery, national ’honour’ and the ’civilizing mission’
 Forgetting slavery, remembering abolition
 Museums, monuments and other national representations of slavery and abolition
 Teaching slavery and abolition in national curricula

To apply, please send a current CV, a title and paper abstract of around 500 words, together with a letter of reference from your supervisor. Applications should be sent to the conference administrator, May Ikeora ( M.N.Ikeora@2010.hull.ac.uk

Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir), to whom informal enquiries may also be addressed. The closing date for applications is the 23 September 2011, and the results of the competition will be finalized by mid-October.

Successful applicants will be allocated 20 minutes to present their work at the conference, and they will also need to submit a written paper of 3000-4000 words for pre-circulation by the 30 November 2011. Further details about the Wilberforce Institute may be found at www.hull.ac.uk/wise and EURESCL